Jeff Dunham

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

American Comedian

John Hickenlooper

Secure the border; have an ID system that works. Have a guest worker system. And then, finally, hold businesses accountable. Once you do that, most of the chambers of commerce and those who are clamoring around immigration will take a deep breath and relax.

American Politician

J. M. Coetzee

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

South African Author

Daniel Stern

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

American Actor

August Strindberg

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Swedish Dramatist

Deepak Chopra

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

American Speaker

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

American Poet

Friedrich Schiller

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

German Dramatist

Hermann Hesse

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

German Novelist

Thomas Carlyle

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Scottish Philosopher

Use 'clamour' to describe very noisy situations where many people are talking or shouting at once.

Chaotic Situations

Indicates the volume escalates as people try to speak over one another.

Increasing Volume

'Clamour' suggests confusion and difficulty in discerning individual words or sounds.

Lack of Clarity

When used as a verb, 'clamour' conveys a strong sense of urgency and importance in the demands made.

Urgency Expressed

Commonly applies to situations where groups publicly express dissatisfaction.

Public Protest

'Clamour' emphasizes a widespread communal desire for something, often in a societal context.

Collective Demand

Reflects intense demands made by a large number of people, not a mild or polite request.

Intensity of Demand

While 'clamour' can suggest noise, it specifically relates to collective demands or protests.

Not Just Noise

 a repeated pattern of stressed syllables, is a form of repetition. Yet for all its varied uses, too much repetition can backfire. Imagine writing the same sentence on the blackboard twenty times, again, and again, and again, and again, or imagine a young child clamoring for her mother's attention,

The pleasure of poetic...

 the concentration of salt ions. So, down you go, riding along the concentration gradient towards more comfortable conditions. For salt ions, however, their lower concentration at the surface, acts like an advertisement to the clamoring masses of salt molecules below who begin their assent.

Making waves: The power...

 So now, you've got your pizza nights, you've got your microwave nights, you've got your grazing nights, you've got your fend-for-yourself nights and so on. Leading the way -- what's leading the way? Meat, junk food, the very stuff that will kill you. So, now we clamor for organic food.

What's wrong with what...

 but here we are clamoring for any air-conditioned building in sight even though it seems like just yesterday we were all rattling on about the polar vortex it's strange right as a kid the space between winter break and glorious summer freedom seems like a lifetime but

What does your time feel...

 low-impact and I think we're rediscovering some real old technology that needs to be brought back sites like this where we have rocks piles of dirt deep ditches lots of down logs the goats you know do a really good job just clamoring over whatever they need to and

Congressional Goats -...

 is clamoring for their confiscation to reimburse his victims. But the scoundrel and his allies at court have made a convincing case that at least some of his wealth was obtained legitimately, and through good service to the crown. The king ponders for a minute

Can you solve the stolen...

 thousand men are dead after years of fighting Lincoln is under incredible pressure to justify the terrible sacrifice and bloodshed on one side he has abolitionists clamoring to give the war a moral purpose but Lincoln worries

The Emancipation...

 dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying names they visit

Nature's Greatest...

 dawn breaks with their noisy clamor so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males they visit

Birds of Paradise Mating...

 Dawn breaks with their noisy clamour, so the dowdy females can easily locate the groups of displaying males.

Clamour

A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting.

Often appears as...

To make loud demands or complaints.

Often appears as...

A powerful demand for something by many people.

Often appears as...

Chaotic Situations

Increasing Volume

Lack of Clarity

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